Please use the rubric provided to assess and rehearse your poem slam project.
How to Memorize Spoken Word Poems (advice)
- Read the poem over, slowly. Read it to yourself, aloud. Read it to each other, aloud.
- Try to understand the mystery of why it works for you using the same words that pass by unremarkably every day.
- Try to understand the poem by understanding the poem inside the poem; to understand the mystery by letting the mystery retain its mystery.
- Read and say the poem over, slowly and aloud.
- Read and say the poem out loud together.
- Understand the poem by knowing every word’s meaning: etymological investigation.
- Dive off the line breaks themselves, into the abyss, cutting the shape of the page around the poem. The poem contains its opposite.
- Read and say the poem over, slowly, aloud. Feel its shape in your lungs, your heart, your throat.
- With an index card, cover everything but the first line of the poem. Read it. Look away, see the line in the air, and say it. Look back. Repeat until you’ve got it.
- Uncover the second line. Learn it as you did the first line, but also add the second line to first, until you’ve got the two.
- Then it’s on to three. Always repeat the first line on down, till the whole poem sings.
- With the poem now internalized, you are free to perform it
With your group, please use the time given to you in class today to work on and rehearse your slam poem for its performance next class, 4th period.
HOMEWORK: Work on preparing your Slam Poem draft. Also, tomorrow you will begin to revise, reflect, and work on your 1st semester Portfolio in Ms. Gamzon's class.
Journals are due Wednesday as well. The end of the marking period is Friday.
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